Editor’s note #1: This blog contains curse words that some subscribers may find upsetting. My apologies. You may want to stop reading now. *** Lately, if you still watch actual news shows, you’ll hear pundits refer to something as “crossing the Rubicon.” The phrase is an idiom for making an irreversible decision. Passing the point of no return. No going back. It originates from Julius Caesar’s 49 B.C. crossing of the Rubicon River with his army, defying the Roman Senate and triggering a civil war. As Jules uttered on that fateful day, “The die is cast.” Five years later, in 44 B.C., after having appointed himself “dictator for life,” Caesar…